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Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-1970 (ICPSR 3)

Principal Investigator(s):
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Summary:

Detailed county and state-level ecological or descriptive
data for the United States for the years 1790 to 1970 are contained in
this collection. These data files contain extensive information about
the social and political character of the United States, including a
breakdown of population by state, race, nationality, number of
families, size of the family, births, deaths, marriages, occupation,
religion, and general economic conditions. Though not complete over the
full time span of this study, statistics are available on such diverse
subjects as total numbers of newspapers and periodicals, total capital
invested in manufacturing, total numbers of educational institutions,
total number of churches, taxation by state, and land surface area in
square miles.

Detailed county and state-level ecological or descriptive
data for the United States for the years 1790 to 1970 are contained in
this collection. These data files contain extensive information about
the social and political character of the United States, including a
breakdown of population by state, race, nationality, number of
families, size of the family, births, deaths, marriages, occupation,
religion, and general economic conditions. Though not complete over the
full time span of this study, statistics are available on such diverse
subjects as total numbers of newspapers and periodicals, total capital
invested in manufacturing, total numbers of educational institutions,
total number of churches, taxation by state, and land surface area in
square miles.

Study Description

Citation

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-1970. ICPSR00003-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 197?. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00003.v1

(1) This study has been updated and revised as HISTORICAL,
DEMOGRAPHIC, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL DATA: THE UNITED STATES, 1790-2000
(ICPSR 2896). ICPSR staff recommends that, for most purposes,
researchers use the updated version istead of ICPSR 0003

Methodology

Data Source:

(1) United States Bureau of the Census decennial census
reports, and (2) SURVEY OF CHURCHES AND CHURCH MEMBERSHIP, 1952

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 1984-07-06

Version History:

2005-12-22 All files were removed from dataset 35 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.